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Saturday, January 13, 1973
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The Headlines
FEDERAL RESERVE APPROVES A RISE IN DISCOUNT RATE
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
You're So Vain
Carly Simon
#1 at the box office
The Poseidon Adventure †
$634,500
The must-have
Shrinky Dinks
You Share a Birthday With
- AD 101 (101)
- Wilhelm Wien (1864)
- Sydney Brenner (1927)
- Patrick Dempsey (1966)
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus (1961)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
discostreakyuppie
Trucker Cb
10-4bearconvoygood buddysmokey
Funk Soul
can you dig itjiveright onsolidturkey
Tech Check
Cell Phone (Call), Ethernet & MRI Scanner.
Cost of Living (1970)
Loaf of Bread
$0.25
Gallon of Gas
$0.36
Average Home
$17,000
New Car
$3,450
Time Elapsed
19,501 days ago
(53 years, 156 days)